The folks at Zynga are out with their third annual Words With Friends Valentine's Day survey, and have shared a handful of fun stats concerning the likes - and dislikes - of more than 11,300 players. If you've ever wished you knew more about the myst...

Facebook announced on Thursday that the site's two-step app permission process has been fully integrated with users worldwide. The feature, which was first announced in April, allows users to have more control over the content they share to Facebook ...

Words With Friends is now available in eight languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Swedish and Portuguese. The game was only available in English from when it launched in 2009 until Thursday, when Zynga launched a new internat...

Zynga, the social gaming company responsible for Words With Friends and Chess With Friends, is suing the hookup app Bang With Friends, citing a violation of trademark infringement over the phrase "with Friends," according to a Bloomberg report. Per t...

About 12 years ago, I happened to take my Palm Pilot (remember those?) to a friend's house. A friend of a friend asked if she could borrow it. Sure, I said. She proceeded to download a game called Bubblet, then curled up on the couch with it for the ...

If you're still looking for a Valentine, you might try sending a Words With Friends request to that cutie you have your eye on. In a poll conducted by social game maker Zynga, 30% of players say they've used the chat feature on the games to flirt wit...

For those of us who lived through the dotcom crash of 2000, plummeting tech stocks are nothing new. But I can't remember ever seeing a company lose 40% of its value in just a few hours -- and that's what happened to Zynga Wednesday afternoon. The onl...

Words With Friends and Draw Something -- two Zynga games that have dominated iOS and Android mobile gaming markets are coming to the Windows 8 Phone platform. Microsoft announced the new operating system at the Windows Phone Summit on Wednesday in Sa...

Zynga is building a portfolio of mobile, casual and social games across a variety of social networks and platforms, including, most notably, Facebook and iOS. It has at least 100 million monthly players across its Farmville and Citiville games on Fac...

Perhaps they should call it Words With Friends With Benefits. On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that's romantic about Zynga's Scrabble-esque word game, but a poll of 118,000 players reveals that L-O-V-E is lurking behind the til...

Want proof that love spawns creativity? Look no further than these clever marriage proposals, which take advantage of mediums and tools that weren't available to previous generations of lovers. SEE ALSO: Top 10 Wedding Dance Videos on YouTube What ar...

Addictive Scrabble-like game Words With Friends helped save the life of an Australian man with heart problems, reports Ozarks First. Australian resident Georgie Fletcher met Beth Legler from Blue Springs, Missouri through a random Words With Friends ...

Who needs dating sites when you can find love playing Words With Friends? The social Scrabble-like app is the latest game to become a hotbed for romance. The popular Zynga game introduced Megan Lawless and Jasper Jasperse as random opponents in Novem...

Zynga, clearly hitting the ground running in 2012, is releasing its second new game in as many days, Scramble With Friends, a successor to the mobile hit Words With Friends. Like the first title, which gained more attention after Alec Baldwin's run i...

Popular scrabble game Words With Friends is now available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color, with Barnes & Noble promising several more high-profile apps in the near future. Owners of Nook Tablet have had quite a slim choice of apps so far, with even ob...

It's been an interesting week for Words With Friends. On Monday, Alec Baldwin made news for getting kicked off a flight prior to take-off in Los Angeles because of issues relating to his phone use. Apparently his addiction to the popular Scrabble-lik...

Alec Baldwin's apparent obsession with popular mobile app Words With Friends got him kicked off a plane on Tuesday at the Los Angeles International Airport. But the 30 Rock actor isn’t the only celebrity with an addiction to a popular digital game. F...

Actor and Words With Friends player Alec Baldwin has, very publicly, shared his perspective on what happened aboard the American Airlines flight that threw him off for using his iPhone Tuesday. Baldwin wrote an apology to his fellow passengers titled...

Friends, word-wranglers, trash-talking letter-tray fiends, lend me your virtual ears. I come to praise a new and powerful spokesman for our tribe of Words With Friends addicts: actor Alec Baldwin. You may already have seen the news that Baldwin was b...

Alec Baldwin likes Words With Friends, the Scrabble game available on multiple platforms including the iPhone, so much that he missed a flight because of it. On Tuesday, Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines plane at the Los Angeles Internation...

Ford has teamed up with social game developer Zynga to host what it has dubbed the world's largest Words With Friends game to promote its 2013 Escape model. Words With Friends is a Scrabble-like social game in which players compete against each other...

Zynga, the social gaming giant behind FarmVille, CityVille, Words With Friends and a plethora of other social games, has moved its 1,500+ employees to brand new offices in San Francisco. The new digs are enormous; They span six floors and include a f...

Words With Friends, the popular Zynga mobile game, is heading to Facebook, Zynga has confirmed. The new version of the word game will offer continuous play. That means if you start a game on your iPhone or Android device, you can continue it on Faceb...

Update: GagaVille launched Tuesday, May 17. Two social media heavyweights -- Lady Gaga and Zynga -- have partnered for GagaVille, an offshoot of FarmVille. GagaVille, a uniquely designed neighboring farm to FarmVille, sports unicorns and crystals. Ga...

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